Quotes About Community

We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot like them. And who would they hate then?

she might even have felt that self-congratulatory pride that heterosexual white people are known to experience due to proximate diversity.

Profii de aici le-au vazut pe toate. Noi ne percepem ca individualitati distincte, dar in ochii lor nu suntem decat o masa de nevoi adolescentine." – Gates Medkowski

Dintre toate locurile prin care am fost in toata viata mea, Ault a fost spatial cu cea mai mare densitate de oameni de care ma puteam indragosti.

CrossFit, the intense strength and conditioning regimen that involved weight lifting, kettle bells, battle ropes, obscure acronyms, the eschewal of most foods other than meat, and a derisive attitude toward the weak and unenlightened masses who still believed that jogging was a sufficient workout and a bagel was an acceptable breakfast.

I have always been particularly touched by the proverb about the purpose of life being to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Jesus never asked anyone to form a church, ordain priests, develop elaborate rituals and institutional cultures, and splinter into denominations. His two great requests were that we "love one another as I have loved you" and that we share bread and wine together as an open channel of that interabiding love.

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kids with special needs are kids. They may have unusual challenges in their lives, but they have the same needs as other children—to be part of the group, to have friends, to play, to feel successful.

People may be the ruin of their own lives, but it's other people that get them started. -Mumma

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

DEMOCRACY OF TOUCH - instead of a democracy of pocket.

Lord'. I help the pastor unload the car and carry stuff to a cake stand right next to the train tracks. He installs me there, as caretaker of the cake stand, and – get this – I have to wear a fucken choir gown. Vernon Gucci Little, in his unfashionable Jordan New Jacks, with fucken choir gown.

This is a neighborhood where underwear sags low. For instance, ole Mr Deutschman lives up here, who used to be upstanding and decent.

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe

With the English, nothing could save him from being the eternal outsider, not even love.

Lemon trees, like Italians, seem to be happiest when they are touching one another

sharp lights, though unseen, mocked it. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.

You know, he said to his mother, I don't want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people best. I belong to the common people. - Sons and Lovers

Sometimes a good husband came along with his family, peacefully. But usually the women and children were alone.